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I Have Said Time And Again There Is No Place On This Earth To Which I Would Not Travel, There Is No Chore I Would Not Undertake If I Had Any Faintest Hope That, By So Doing, I Would Promote The General Cause Of World Peace.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I Have Said Time And Again There Is No Place On This Earth To Which I Would Not Travel, There Is No Chore I Would Not Undertake If I Had Any Faintest Hope That, By So Doing, I Would Promote The General Cause Of World Peace.

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Men And Women, Inspired By Faith In Man's Dignity, Goaded By Conviction In Man's Responsibility, Labored That This Land Might Be A Better Home For Those Who Followed Them. Because Every American Generation Attacked Its Problems With Fresh Vigor, We Have Peopled A Continent, Subdued Its Prairies And Wilderness, Tamed Its Rivers And Devoted Its Resources To The Betterment Of Those Who Dwell In It.

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The Middle Of The Road Is All Of The Usable Surface. The Extremes, Right And Left, Are In The Gutters.

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When We Get To The Point, As We One Day Will, That Both Sides Know That In Any Outbreak Of General Hostilities, Regardless Of The Element Of Surprise, Destruction Will Be Both Reciprocal And Complete, Possibly We Will Have Sense Enough To Meet At The Conference Table With The Understanding That The Era Of Armaments Has Ended And The Human Race Must Conform Its Actions To This Truth Or Die.

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Our Government Makes No Sense Unless It Is Founded On A Deeply Held Religious Belief - And I Don't Care What It Is.

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In The Final Choice A Soldier's Pack Is Not So Heavy As A Prisoner's Chains.

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I Firmly Believe That The Army Of Persons Who Urge Greater And Greater Centralization Of Authority And Greater And Greater Dependence Upon The Federal Treasury Are Really More Dangerous To Our Form Of Government Than Any External Threat That Can Possibly Be Arrayed Against Us.

The Spirit Of Man Is More Important Than Mere Physical Strength, And The Spiritual Fiber Of A Nation Than Its Wealth. The Bible Is Endorsed By The Ages. Our Civilization Is Built Upon Its Words. In No Other Book Is There Such A Collection Of Inspired Wisdom, Reality, And Hope.

There Are No Victories At Discount Prices.

Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.

Help The Cubans To The Utmost Counseling His Successor While Handing Over The Reins. We Cannot Let Castro's Government Go On.

As Quickly As You Start Spending Federal Money In Large Amounts, It Looks Like Free Money.

The Peace We Seek And Need Means Much More Than Mere Absence Of War. It Means The Acceptance Of Law, And The Fostering Of Justice, In All The World.

Every Gathering Of Americans-whether A Few On The Porch Of A Crossroads Store Or Massed Thousands In A Great Stadium-is The Possessor Of A Potentially Immeasurable Influence On The Future.

May We Never Confuse Honest Dissent With Disloyal Subversion.

The True Purpose Of Education Is To Prepare Young Men And Women For Effective Citizenship In A Free Form Of Government.

Science Seems Ready To Confer Upon Us, As Its Final Gift, The Power To Erase Human Life From This Planet.

I Shall Make That Trip. I Shall Go To Korea.

As It Is An Ancient Truth That Freedom Cannot Be Legislated Into Existence, So It Is No Less Obvious That Freedom Cannot Be Censored Into Existence.

But I Think A Life Of Raising Prize Cattle, Going Shooting Two Or Three Times A Year, Fishing In The Summer, And Interspersing The Whole Thing With Some Golf And Bridge - And Whenever I Felt Like Talking Or Writing, Doing It With Abandon And With No Sense Of Responsibility Whatsoever - Maybe Such A Life Wouldn't Be So Bad.

Some Day There Is Going To Be A Man Sitting In My Present Chair Who Has Not Been Raised In The Military Services And Who Will Have Little Understanding Of Where Slashes In Their Estimates Can Be Made With Little Or No Damage. If That Should Happen While We Still Have The State Of Tension That Now Exists In The World, I Shudder To Think Of What Could Happen In This Country

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And Now, As In No Other Age, We Seek It [peace] Because We Have Been Warned, By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself.

I Have Said Time And Again There Is No Place On This Earth To Which I Would Not Travel, There Is No Chore I Would Not Undertake If I Had Any Faintest Hope That, By So Doing, I Would Promote The General Cause Of World Peace.

Never Waste A Minute Thinking About People You Don't Like.

The Teaching Of Their Ancient Belief Is Filled With Truth For The Present Day. Its Profound Sense Of Justice, Nation To Nation, Man To Man, Is An Essential Part Of Every Religious And Social Order. The Health Of Our Society Depends Upon A Deep And Abiding Respect For The Basic Commandments Of The God Of Israel.

In The Service, When A Man Gives You His Word, His Word Is Binding. In Politics, You Never Know.

These Are Not Bad People. All They Are Concerned About Is To See That Their Sweet Little Girls Are Not Required To Sit In School Alongside Some Big Overgrown Negroes.

Leadership Is The Ability To Get A Person To Do What You Want Him To Do, When You Want It Done, In A Way You Want It Done, Because He Wants To Do It.

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